From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G7DLw-0004pV-Vy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:37:17 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6UFYFaw006770; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:34:15 GMT Received: from observed.de (observed.de [81.169.134.89]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6UFW7VN016614 for ; Sun, 30 Jul 2006 15:32:07 GMT Received: (qmail 17693 invoked by uid 509); 30 Jul 2006 17:20:45 +0200 Received: from 220.209.88.246 by observed.de (envelope-from , uid 508) with qmail-scanner-1.25-st-qms (clamdscan: 0.88/1389. spamassassin: 3.0.4. perlscan: 1.25-st-qms. Clear:RC:0(220.209.88.246):SA:0(1.2/5.0):. Processed in 4.256696 secs); 30 Jul 2006 15:20:45 -0000 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=1.2 required=5.0 X-Spam-Level: + X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN-Mail-From: psz@observed.de via observed.de X-Antivirus-MYDOMAIN: 1.25-st-qms (Clear:RC:0(220.209.88.246):SA:0(1.2/5.0):. Processed in 4.256696 secs Process 17684) Received: from nttkyo152246.tkyo.nt.ftth.ppp.infoweb.ne.jp (HELO ?192.168.1.4?) (psz@observed.de@220.209.88.246) by observed.de with SMTP; 30 Jul 2006 17:20:41 +0200 Message-ID: <44AAC866.7000701@observed.de> Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 04:58:30 +0900 From: Paul Sebastian Ziegler User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (X11/20060718) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world References: <20060730185759.01619ac0.alex_fortwinder@gmx.net> In-Reply-To: <20060730185759.01619ac0.alex_fortwinder@gmx.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.94.0.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ee9631ed-6a39-4ee6-8147-74f489d9366e X-Archives-Hash: 02706beef15d6c00b142d0cd1e5f6130 Alex Fortwinder wrote: > Hi list, > > I's like to update my system, however, I'd like to keep some of the packages as they are (X, firefox, kernel, etc) > How do I go about it before i run emerge --update --deep --newuse world? > Thanks in advance, > Alex Hi, I'm not sure if I missed something here but removing the packages from the world-file (/var/lib/portage/world) should work. Also you could emerge them using the --oneshot option in the first place to avoid adding them to the world-file. However are you really sure you want to exclude packages with frequent security-issues like firefox and the kernel from being updated? MfG Paul -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list